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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 18.5 as follows:
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| (410 ILCS 535/18.5)
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| Sec. 18.5. Electronic reporting system for death |
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| registrations. The State
Registrar
may facilitate death |
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| registration by implementing an electronic reporting
system. |
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| The
system may be used to transfer information to individuals |
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| and institutions
responsible for
completing and filing |
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| certificates and related reports for deaths that occur in
the |
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| State.
The system shall be capable of storing and retrieving |
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| accurate
and timely
data and statistics for those persons and |
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| agencies responsible for vital
records registration
and |
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| administration. Upon establishment of such an electronic |
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| reporting system, but not later than January 1, 2011, the |
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| county clerk in the county in which a death occurred or the |
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| county clerk of the county where a decedent last resided, as |
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| indicated on the decedent's death certificate, shall be |
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| authorized to issue certifications of death records from such |
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| system, and the State Registrar shall cause the electronic |
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| reporting system to provide for such capability.
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